Three years after their underperforming debut - critics liked it; the public mouthed "who?" and wandered past - the Shortwave Set's return sees the band throwing everything and everyone into the mix in the hope of pricking up some ears. The album's special guests include chin-strokers' heroes Van Dyke Parks and John Cale, and production is by Danger Mouse. Remarkably, though, overegging has proved not to be a problem for the pudding. In an age of records reduced to sonic sludge in the name of production, Danger Mouse's work deftly shows off the Shortwave Set's strengths. It's not what you'd call a forward-looking record - these people have a more than passing familiarity with the early 70s work of David Bowie, and are in thrall to the folky psychedelia of a few years earlier than that - but it's expertly executed and swooningly gorgeous.